Online giving with fund designations

Online giving lets churches accept one-time and recurring gifts by card, digital wallet and ACH, with receipts donors can use at tax time. Members give to general, missions or building funds, one-time or recurring, and get year-end statements automatically. Roots sets up giving forms, fee-coverage options and reporting, and connects them to your donor records.
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Payment solutions for churches

How each solution supports churches

See what each option adds to the way your business takes and tracks payments.

Donation Processing

For churches: Organize one-time and recurring contributions, with campaign or program references connected to giving records, event enrollments and campaign totals. Online giving lets churches accept one-time and recurring gifts by card, digital wallet and ACH, with receipts donors can use at tax time. Members give to general, missions or building funds, one-time or recurring, and get year-end statements automatically. Roots sets up giving forms, fee-coverage options and reporting, and connects them to your donor records.
  • Build giving forms and campaign pages
  • Set up receipts with the IRS acknowledgment language donors need
  • Connect gifts to your donor database or accounting

Text to Pay

For churches: Send a payment request for donations, event registrations and community programs by text so customers can pay against a specific order or invoice. Text-to-pay sends a secure payment link by SMS, so members and visitors can pay churches in a few taps without logging in. Members text a keyword to get a secure giving link during services. Roots sets up message templates, consent capture and reconciliation.
  • Write text templates and reminder schedules
  • Set up consent and opt-out handling
  • Connect payments to your billing system
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Unattended Payments

For churches: Build self-service checkout for donations, event registrations and community programs at kiosks, stations or access points that operate without a staffed counter. Unattended payment kiosks and readers let churches take payments around the clock without a staffed counter. Tap-to-give kiosks let visitors give by card or phone before and after services. Roots specifies the hardware, sets up processing and connects it to your back-office system.
  • Specify kiosk hardware and placement
  • Integrate with your account or giving system
  • Monitor devices and support them after launch
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ACH Payments

For churches: Offer bank-account payments for donations, event registrations and community programs, with authorization and invoice matching built into the workflow. ACH lets churches collect tithes, offerings, event fees and building campaigns directly from a payer's bank account, usually at a lower cost than cards on larger payments. Recurring bank gifts cost far less than cards and don't lapse when a card expires. Roots sets up ACH with authorization language and fraud controls that meet Nacha's rules.
  • Write compliant authorization language for members and visitors
  • Set up account verification and return monitoring
  • Help you meet Nacha's 2026 fraud-monitoring requirements
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Square Payment Links

For churches: Share a checkout link for donations, event registrations and community programs through messages, email or your website. Square Payment Links let churches collect a payment, sell an item, accept a donation, or sell an event or class with a link, QR code or buy button. Put a donation link QR code on bulletins and screens. Roots builds your links and QR codes, sets up custom fields and redirects, and ties them to reporting.
  • Plan which links churches need (fees, events, donations) and name them clearly
  • Create print-ready QR codes for flyers, signs and newsletters
  • Set custom fields and post-payment redirects to capture the details you need
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Square Point of Sale

For churches: Bring donations, event registrations and community programs into a point-of-sale workflow, with reporting organized around giving records, event enrollments and campaign totals. Square Point of Sale is free to download and turns a phone or tablet into a point of sale, so churches can take tithes, offerings, event fees and building campaigns in person. Volunteers take payments at events and book tables on Square POS. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, helps you choose a plan, configure items and staff access, and train your team.
  • Recommend the right Square plan and devices for how churches actually take payments
  • Build the item library for tithes, offerings, event fees and building campaigns, with taxes, discounts and categories set up correctly
  • Configure team permissions, receipts and reporting, then train staff and volunteers
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Square Invoices

For churches: Send itemized invoices for donations, event registrations and community programs and track deposits, due dates and outstanding balances. Square Invoices lets churches send invoices by email, text or link and get paid by card, digital wallet or ACH bank transfer. Bill weddings and facility rentals with deposits. Roots sets up your templates, recurring schedules and autopay, and connects invoices to your accounting.
  • Design invoice templates and custom fields (terms, policies, account numbers) for churches
  • Set up recurring schedules and card-on-file or bank-on-file autopay for members and visitors
  • Configure reminders and late-payment workflows
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Custom Payment Integration

For churches: Connect the payment flow for donations, event registrations and community programs with your software and the operational records behind giving records, event enrollments and campaign totals. Payments are only half the job. Churches also need each payment posted to the right account, invoice or record automatically. Roots posts gifts to your ChMS and accounting by fund. Roots scopes, builds and supports the integration.
  • Map how payments should post in your system
  • Build, test and host the integration
  • Support and maintain it as systems change
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Donation Processing questions

Questions congregation administrators ask about payments.
Roots can plan both donation flows, including the checkout experience, recurring authorization and donor payment confirmations.
We can include campaign or fund references in the collection and reporting workflow so your team can reconcile gifts to the right purpose.
Bring your campaigns, recurring-giving needs and donor receipt process. Roots uses these details to plan the workflow for churches and prepare a clear setup scope.
Request a quote for your business and the setup you need. We review the scope and costs with you before you proceed. Consultations and payment reviews are free.

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